gptzfsboot problem on HP P410i Smart Array

Wed Apr 9 21:53:02 UTC 2014

Am 09.04.2014 um 23:48 schrieb Matthew Seaman <matthew at FreeBSD.org>:

> On 09/04/2014 22:17, Rainer Duffner wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I found this old thread….
>> 
>> I can’t boot FreeBSD 10 installed with zfsroot on a DL380G7 (P410i controller).
>> I tried the installer and I tried installing with mfsbsd10se.
>> System has 48GB RAM.
>> 
>> Is there a PR for this?
>> 
>> 
>> Now, I’ve got to waste 2’600 GB disks (and 300-odd I/Os) for a boot-disk…..
> 
> You've got more than 8 drives in your spool?  

No, it’s actually just a single RAID6-0 disk created by the P410i…

And no, as the server is in a remote datacenter, an USB-stick is not an option.

It’s slow enough booting via a virtual USB-image over iLO...